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‘God’s angry’ (2000)

In a flashback to the blind woman’s childhood, her mother Marie (Elise McCredie) tries to teach the child to pray, in a disused outback church. The child (Bree Beadman) has repeatedly tried to tell her mother that her grandfather is ... [read more]

The march (2000)

A four-wheel drive makes its way down a stretch of road at Curtin Springs. The women are discussing the alcohol-related fatalities that have occurred here. They reminisce about the 1990 march against the sale of alcohol to Anangu (the word ... [read more]

‘All the different women’ (c1970)

This advertisement from the late 1960s or early 1970s shows a woman eating assorted Cadbury’s Roses chocolates. As she bites into the different flavours, she transforms into different types of women – 'crisp, elegant, sophisticated’, 'fresh and young’ and 'exotic’. ... [read more]

‘The last Tasmanian’ (2008)

Narrator Rachel Perkins recounts Truganini’s concerns about her burial and the resting place of her body after her death. Darlene Mansell, historian Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nation, and writer Bruce Pascoe of Boonwurrung Heritage, discuss Truganini’s government-given status ... [read more]

‘Family and friends’ (1973)

Buddy Rand (Fred Cullen), on the run from the police, goes to his sister’s (Marie Redshaw) place but she says he can’t stay. Running out of options, Buddy visits his girlfriend Betty Breen (Bunny Gibson) at the pub before looking ... [read more]

‘The Butchers of Invermay’ (1978)

Using still photographs, personal narration, quoted correspondence and music, the mid-20th century history of the maternal side of the filmmaker’s family is detailed. [read more]

Profound impact (1987)

In 1939, for the first time, a French and British contemporary art exhibition was brought to Melbourne. It is the first large collection of cubist, post-expressionist and surrealist art exhibited there. It wowed the artists and public but had its ... [read more]

High stakes (1946)

The cattle are dying of thirst. Desperate to find water, McAlpine heads them up over an old mountain pass that he knows. Mary (Daphne Campbell) leads them up but finds the path blocked near the top. If the cattle are ... [read more]

An outback emergency (1949)

In a dramatised scenario, an injured stockman is given urgent medical attention in remote Australia. It begins with ‘Skipper’ Partridge and a property owner who are notified of the situation. This then cuts to a woman on a pedal radio ... [read more]

We have to live with it (1974)

Balmain resident of 48 years Mrs Moran addresses a local crowd gathered in the streets of Balmain about the dangers of shipping containers being trucked through the main streets of their suburb. As she is talking, the noise of the ... [read more]

Bush tucker (2004)

Aboriginal brother and sister (Luke Carroll and Kyas Sherriff), who are used to life in town, are trying to find and cook bush tucker for the German tourists they’ve offered to look after. The menu will include witchetty grubs and ... [read more]

‘Full as a goog’ (1960)

Ida sends Jean Halstead (Dina Merrill) to town to fetch Bluey Brown from the pub. Bluey’s wife is in labour and Paddy (Robert Mitchum) is under strict instructions to keep him sober. Jean finds Bluey dead drunk in a corner ... [read more]

The breakthrough (1989)

Sergeant Dillon, movingly played by himself, tells the President of the Commission of Inquiry (Nick Tate) how he discovered a bottle of Chivas Regal whisky in his locker, to which he had the only key. He took the bottle home ... [read more]

The ‘30-second breakfast’ (c1943)

A daughter’s voice (Janice Reid) pleads with her mother (Queenie Ashton) to tell her a story about a lady kangaroo. Her mother obliges with a story which is accompanied by cartoons of Lady Kangaroo and her family. The difficulty of ... [read more]

The good, the bad and the ugly (2000)

The Pakistan cricket team has had its fair share of cheats and match fixers and yet there is one player whose bravery in the face of having his national cricketing career interrupted marks him as a man of true cricketing ... [read more]

Lessons in policing (1975)

Sergeant Simmonds (Peter Cummins) and Constable Ross (John Hargreaves) wait for their lunch in a café booth. The sergeant taunts the new recruit with his lack of knowledge about real police work. When the hamburgers are ready, the older policeman ... [read more]

I know who you are... (2008)

Ray (David Roberts) goes to meet Billy (Joel Edgerton) in the men’s restroom of the same Chinese restaurant where he hired him to burn down Carla and Greg’s house. Billy jumps on him and points a gun at his head. ... [read more]

Family time (1977)

Malcolm Fraser and his wife, Tammy, enter their living room. Two of their children are home from boarding school. The narrator states that Fraser returns home 14 hours after he left it and has more to do later. The family ... [read more]

‘You just don’t matter to me anymore’ (1957)

Lily Parker (Rosemary Harris) follows Macauley and Buster into town, after her father tells her he sent them away from the Parker property. At the pub, Lily needs to sit down when she sees Macauley in the public bar. The ... [read more]

Path to progress (1992)

After black-and-white footage of Pintubi people, Smithy Zimeran Tjampitjinpa recalls being moved to Papunya. Yuyua Nampitjinpa talks about her experience in the mission school. [read more]

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